Governance and innovation
By: Maria Brouwer.
Publisher: New York, NY
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Routledge
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415437059; 9780203929513
Subjects: Organizational change; Economic development; Institutional economics; Political stability
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue and governance and prosperity; title: Entrepreneurship and economic development; title: Organizations and uncertainty : the management of perceptions : from medieval Italy to Silicon Valley; title: Entrepreneurship and the state; title: Valuation and authority in failing firms : US and European bankruptcy law; title: Performance pay and uncertainty in entrepreneurial and bureaucratic firms; title: Executive pay and tenure : founding fathers, mercenaries and revolutionaries; title: Decision agents in corporate and political democracies : Venice, Florence and the Low Countries; title: Democracy and dictatorship : the politics of innovation; title: Waning and emerging empires.